I’ve often wondered about Americans of privilege who adopt from out of country when there are so many American children in need of a good safe home.
Maybe, she wants to give them a chance at a better life.
Because adoption is a government libtard torture program in most places in America.
Because the system here is broken. Most kids that are eventually placed for adoption are in the foster care system for multiple years and that comes with all kinds of trauma.
Do you realize how difficult it is to adopt domestically, especially if you don’t want an open adoption?
This was partly so the kids could keep in touch with their culture, partly because social workers placed these kids with affluent white parents when there were friends or family who would be willing to take them in but maybe the home was too small, person was a single mom or just older lady.
Foster care attempts to keep families intact, so often the kids get sent home to a mom who is a druggie, until mom relapses and they are again removed.
Often older kids have horrific acting out against their new parents.
And of course people prefer babies, which are few available because of abortion.
Many American babies available for adoption are children of drug addicts. Lots of “issues.”
Fostering is easy because the CPS makes money from fostering.
Adopting means that they are out of the system and so no more money for your department.
Even adopting older children, many who have severe attachment disorder, is three year process. At any time in this process they can decide to come and pick up the child and plop them back into foster care for any or no reason.
So people adopt from overseas.
They would rather not get attached to a child only to have to wave goodbye five years down the line and then read their obituary.
Those children were probably eating dirt for part of their meals. There’s likely no one in Haiti who could have provided for those children. I don’t think God cares where we adopt children from.
I know someone who has been through the process. From what I've been told, far too many "American children" are too old for adoption and come with all kinds of baggage that makes them difficult to raise.
That’s an old argument not applicable now. It’s generally used by people who have issues with race and or culture differences when there’s a legal issue involved in overseas adoptions...both here and in the foreign country.
My daughter has explored adoption idea for her family. For one child it will cost $15,000. I have no idea what it would cost to adopt a Haitian child. I suspect it would be less than $15,000. Then, you have the cost of air travel with Haiti less expensive than countries further away. Finally, whoever made the child trafficking allegations should pay a big price for slander.
After introductions etc. He asked if he might hold the child just for a moment, as she handed the baby to him his eyes welled with tears as he trembled saying ......”Thank you so much for saving one of our nations daughters.”
I’ve often wondered about Americans of privilege who adopt from out of country when there are so many American children in need of a good safe home.
Uhmm...it is not just Americans of privilege who adopt from out of country - there are many regular middle class people who do the same thing.
[I’ve often wondered about Americans of privilege who adopt from out of country when there are so many American children in need of a good safe home.]
She adopted abroad not to virtue signal, but to avoid the complications of adopting domestically. Non-damaged birth parents can get their kid back. Damaged birth parents (i.e. substance abusers) also have damaged kids (due to birth defects) who, at the extremes, end up massacring other kids (remember the FL situation?). Fact is, until abortion is outlawed and domestic adoptions made irrevocable, adopting here is a fraught process. I know of people who have adopted damaged kids, as well as those who adopted perfectly fine kids, then had their birth parents take them back with the support of the court system. Both went through nightmarish ordeals.
You might also be wondering why Haiti and not Russia, Romania, China, South Korea or places where some semblance of organized government exists. Because liberal do-gooders have been raising hell about transnational adoptions, resulting in most countries banning foreign adoptions except for babies with serious problems such as Down Syndrome, brain damage, spinal damage, etc. Haiti is one of the last foreign countries where you can adopt healthy babies.
I don't know where you got that information, but that isn't true. Several couples at my church adopted children and it was a long and expensive process to adopt an American child. One couple finally gave up and adopted from a foreign country.